[goldstategop]

I'd say its next to impossible. Trying to change France's anti-capitalist mindset is akin to trying to move a mountain. That's the scale of the task Nicholas Sarkozy faces in changing France's statist immobilisme culture. Time will tell if he is in fact France's Ronald Reagan - or another pseudo-conservative like his predecessor Jacques Chirac. We in America wish him luck.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Stoat]

I'd say its next to impossible. Trying to change France's anti-capitalist mindset is akin to trying to move a mountain. That's the scale of the task Nicholas Sarkozy faces in changing France's statist immobilisme culture. Time will tell if he is in fact France's Ronald Reagan - or another pseudo-conservative like his predecessor Jacques Chirac. We in America wish him luck.

I agree that it's going to be very, very tough, but he has a clear majority on his side and it's obvious to anyone that the old Socialist "solutions" simply don't work, and so there should be some openness to change although it will most likely come very very slowly and with tremendous effort.  Hopefully he will have the strength, resolve, and the backing to get it done..

[California Patriot]

Even if Sarko fails, I don’t think it would be his fault, and he wouldn’t be (isn’t) like Chirac in any case. When did Chirac ever say the kinds of things that Sarko has?